Rev. Thomas Seward

Thomas Seward was born in Worcestershire and educated at Westminster and at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1731, M.A. 1734). He was rector of Llan-maes, Glamorgan (1733-40), tutored for the duke of Grafton, and rector of Eyam in Derbyshire (1740). He was a prebendary of Lichfield, and of Salisbury (1755) and resided in Lichfield with his famous daughter Anna Seward.

TEXT RECORDS:

1748Ode on a Lady's Illness after the Death of her Child.

PUBLICATIONS:

The conformity between Popery and paganism. Illustrated in several instances. 1746.
The folly, danger and wickedness of disaffection to the government: an assize sermon. 1750.
Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, ed. Seward and Sympson. 10 vols, 1750.
The late dreadful earthquakes no proof of God's particular wrath against the Portuguese: a sermon. 1756.
A charge to the clergy of the peculiars belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. 1775.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Westminster School
St. John's College Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts

clergyman
tutor
poet

Dr. Erasmus Darwin
Samuel Johnson
Anna Seward

REFERENCE:

DNB; not NCBEL.

Dodsley, Collection of Poems (1748); obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 60 (March 1790) 280-81; Anna Seward, in Letters (1811); John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58); William Prideaux Courtney, in Dodsley's Collection of Poetry, its Contents and Contributors (1910); Venn and Venn, Alum. Cant. (1922-27).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Rev. Thomas Seward:

1.	1755  William Mason to Thomas Gray, 26 November 1755; Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason ed. John Mitford (1853) 37-39.
2.	1777  Samuel Johnson, 1777; Boswell, Life of Johnson (1791); ed. G. B. Hill (1891) 3:172.
3.	1791  James Boswell, in Life of Johnson, 1791; ed. G. B. Hill (1891) 2:534-36.
4.	1794  Richard George Robinson, "Character of Mr. Seward" Gentleman's Magazine 64 (October 1794) 875-76.
5.	1804  Francis William Blagdon, in Flowers of Literature for 1803 (1804) 30n.
6.	1808  Walter Scott, "Epitaph on the Rev. Thomas Seward and his Daughter Anna" 1808; New British Lady's Magazine 2 (May 1819) 211.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Rev. Thomas Seward:

1.	1790  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 60 (March 1790) 280-81.
2.	1910  William Prideaux Courtney, in Dodsley's Collection of Poetry, its Contents and Contributors (1910) 128-29.